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Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Files, All Data, 2005

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Energy
Sub-Agency	Energy Information Administration
Category	Energy and Utilities
Date Released	1978
Date Updated	2005
Time Period	Annual
Frequency	Quadrennial
Description	The Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), which is conducted every four years, provides national statistical survey data on the use of energy in residential housing units including physical housing unit types, appliances utilized, demographics, fuels, and other energy use information. This dataset (i.e., the full RECS dataset) is very large in size and may require specialized software to open on your computer. The file might not open completely in Excel 2003 or earlier versions. For a subset of the data pertaining only to Energy Consumption component of RECS, please go to: http://www.data.gov/details/59 (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Statistical
Keywords	Residential energy consumption data, energy consumption, energy use, Household use of energy, data, federal data download, national, housing, appliances, RECS data, energy, federal datasets, energy data, statistics
Unique ID	10

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Agency Program Page	http://www.eia.doe.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.eia.doe.gov/consumption/

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	household
Granularity	RECS data are tabulated for the four Census regions, the nine Census divisions, and for the four most populous States--California, Florida, New York, and Texas.
Geographic Coverage	United States

Data Description

Collection Mode	The survey collected data from 4,382 households sampled at random using a complex multistage, area-probability design to represent 111.1 million U.S. households, the Census Bureau's statistical estimate for all occupied housing units in 2005. Data were obtained from residential energy suppliers for each unit in the sample to produce the Consumption and Expenditures data.
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recs2005/hc2005_tables/2005recshouseholdquex.pdf
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recspubuse05/layoutfiles/RECS05layoutAllData.csv

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recspubuse05/pubuse05.html
Additional Metadata	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recspubuse05/pdf/recs05codebook.pdf

Statistical Information

Statistical Methodology	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Sampling	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Estimation	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Weighting	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Disclosure avoidance	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Questionnaire design	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Series breaks	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Non-response adjustment	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Seasonal adjustment	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/
Statistical Characteristics	http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/

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